Simple Basic Contact Form <= 20240502 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-4144
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published May 13, 2024
Last Updated May 14, 2024
Researcher stealthcopter
Description

The Simple Basic Contact Form plugin for WordPress for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 20240502. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes. The severity and exploitability depends on the functionality of other plugins installed in the environment.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-basic-contact-form (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 20240502
Patched Version
  • 20240511
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